Mississippi Courts Won’t Say How They Provide Lawyers for Poor Defendants
In 2017, the Mississippi Supreme Court’s then-Chief Justice William Waller Jr. helped mandate that judges throughout the state explain in writing how they deliver on their duty to provide poor criminal defendants with a lawyer. Now, six years after the rule went into effect, only one of the 23 circuit court districts in the state has responded.
Studying Whiteness, Poli Sci and Humanity Changed My Path, Shaped Publications
You may know that I grew up in Mississippi, but left the day after I got my political-science degree from Mississippi State University. I hightailed it north, vowing to never again live in my racist, misogynistic state that tried to kill the spirit of smart young people like me. I thought, naively, that I’d left […]
